Link-layer security flaws

From: Otel Florian-Daniel (otelat_private)
Date: Wed Apr 28 1999 - 02:34:59 PDT

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    Hello everybody,

I'm trying to gather some data about link-layer protocol specific attacks
and/or security flaws that can be exploited, e.g. Ethernet is prone to
sniffing and MAC address spoofing. Most of the stuff I found so far
revolves around Eth. sniffing (how to use it, how to detect it, so
on and so forth). But what about other types of attacks and/or
link-layers (e.g. broadcast-storm based DoS attack? Are Token Ring, FDDI,
ISDN, ATM flawless ?)  Does anybody have some info about this ? Is the
topic superfluous/too general ?

Many thanks in advance for any reasonable comment and/or pointers,


Florian

P.S: Maybe is worth stressing more that I'm looking for vendor and
protocol independent info and not specific implementation bugs.

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